Rent (musical)

Rent is a Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning rock musical, based upon Puccini's opera La bohème. Rent opened in New York City on April 29, 1996 at the Nederlander Theatre and continues to play on Broadway (the 8th-longest running Broadway musical as of May 3, 2005). The musical centers around a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive in New York's Alphabet City neighborhood under the shadow of AIDS. (In the opera, the disease was tuberculosis).

Cultural impact

The musical Rent has been mentioned elsewhere in pop culture, including (but not limited to) the cartoons The Simpsons, Family Guy, the puppet musical Avenue Q, the off-Broadway satiric review Forbidden Broadway Strikes Back and the television show "Friends".

Related Topics:
The Simpsons - Family Guy - Puppet - Avenue Q - Forbidden Broadway Strikes Back - Friends

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The 2004 movie ' included a parody of the musical entitled Lease.

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